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...believable urban legend, argues Brunvand, must have a combination of active ingredients in anecdotal form: currency, anonymity ("Guess what happened to a friend of a friend of mine"), an ironic twist worthy of O. Henry and a lack of factual foundation combined with a seductive plausibility. The hardiest perennials include "The Choking Doberman," a gruesome tale synthesized from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned...
...quantity of marijuana, about two dozen pills, drug paraphernalia, $1,900 in cash and a .25-cal. handgun, thus providing sufficient evidence for officers to arrest Bobby Dale Young, 49, a bartender, and his wife Judith Ann Young, 37, a U.S. bankruptcy-court clerk. But there was an extraordinary twist to the bust: the tipster was the Youngs' 13-year-old daughter Deanna...
...opposition, including Friedan, 9 to 5, labor unions and an ad hoc group called the Coalition for Reproductive Equality in the Workplace, offers an equality argument with a different twist: under the California law, women are made equal to men in the sense that both can now exercise their reproductive rights without risking their jobs. In fact, however, these advocates are proposing women-only benefits, like those routinely offered to working mothers in other industrialized countries. Says Christine Littleton, co-founder of CREW and an acting professor of law at UCLA: "Sometimes equal treatment is what is necessary for long...
...small group of well-heeled football fanatics, most of them real estate moguls, took the gamble and created the U.S.F.L. The twelve-team league opened in 1983 with a new twist: it played not in the fall but in the spring and summer, thereby testing aficionados' appetite for year-round football. Over the next two years, other fat-cat fans, including New York City's Donald Trump, bought in to swell the league to 18 franchises...
...Tyson's exotic beauty, and Michael Caine as chief bad guy has never been sleazier. Simone's evil sadistic ponce turns out to be a standard slick pimp, and the tragic Cathy is just another spacey blonde waif with a drug problem--and with a hard-to-believe twist, as we discover at the end of the movie...